tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40180351011942731892018-08-28T10:42:26.642+01:00Newspaper ManThe blog of an Irish journalistMark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-66466968344949428682009-02-26T20:59:00.002+00:002009-02-26T21:33:44.115+00:00Lost in translationThe Supreme Court sat last week to hear a case in Irish. While the state has battled for the Irish language in Europe it's not as keen to give it equality when it comes to the hundreds of statutory instruments that are published each year in English only.Article eight of the constitution clearly says that Irish is the first language of the state. The government doesn't believe this means the Mark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-49212324972391938402009-02-16T23:29:00.014+00:002009-02-18T17:48:45.405+00:00EXCLUSIVE?A lot of papers use "EXCLUSIVE" tags on stories to highlight a yarn they believe no one else has. My paper doesn't. I think most broadsheets in Ireland don't. I think the reasoning against using the tag is that every story, in theory, should be somewhat exclusive and there should be no need to shout about it.It can also look daft putting an exclusive tag on a story if five other papers published Mark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-55782200514287298422009-02-14T01:08:00.014+00:002009-02-17T21:32:57.970+00:00The return of Gama and other yarns that made the websiteThere is no doubt that finding the Irish edition of the Sunday Times online is a bit of a struggle. It's http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/ by the way. It doesn't really roll off the tongue. We are looking to get a simple timesonline.ie address but I don't know if that will happen any time soon.One yarn from last week that didn't go up on the site was about Gama. Remember them? Mark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-4997368379212222002009-02-02T22:47:00.007+00:002009-02-07T02:51:40.887+00:00Moriarty and seeking asylum in IrelandThings are getting very interesting with the Moriarty Tribunal which has spent over a decade investigating the award of the state's second mobile phone license to Denis O'Brien's Esat consortium. It's difficult to get people interested in this but it is going to be a huge story later this year. We've already reported that the provisional findings are critical of the civil servants involved in theMark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-32085878438671880012009-01-27T19:54:00.008+00:002009-01-27T23:13:15.112+00:00Planning and dealing with reportersOne other yarn I had last week was about the residents of Creighton Street in Dublin agreeing to withdraw a planning objection for the tidy sum of 1.6m euro.Understandably a lot of people don't like reporters calling them up. In this case one resident who I asked about the deal to withdraw the appeal from An Bord Pleanala was particularly belligerent on the phone. "I'm not talking to a person whoMark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-19382146019256708972009-01-26T10:48:00.011+00:002009-01-27T19:53:53.977+00:00Roscommon and paying double for musicLast week's incest and neglect case in Roscommon is the most disturbing case I've covered. Barry Andrews, minister for children, was quick to react and by Saturday the HSE announced it was to hold an "independent" inquiry with a report due in six months. How the HSE allowed the six children to remain in that house when social workers were visiting them regularly is difficult to believe and a fullMark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018035101194273189.post-63677029957952751252009-01-13T23:21:00.000+00:002009-01-21T23:37:06.739+00:00First postHi.I've been meaning to start a proper blog for some time now.My first attempt, robohack.journals.ie, is lying in a state of disrepair and neglect and I can't figure out how to pull the damn thing down. I began that blog in 2006 after John Breslin, boards.ie founder and lecturer, gave a talk to my postgraduate journalism course in NUI Galway on the merits of blogging.Enthused by John's passion Mark Tighehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09882501577346617270noreply@blogger.com0